check the client program which talk to your box. the client may doing something bad
====================================== WWW.XGFORCE.COM The Next Generation Load Balance and Fail Safe Server Clustering Software for the Internet. ====================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Rosenthal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 3:43 PM Subject: Running out of sockets, TIME_WAIT state > I have the kernel configured with 65536 sockets. This system is very fast, > connected to a very fast network, with a very fast storage system. It is > handling about 5000 connections per second and is maxing out its 65536 > sockets (because so many are sitting in TIME_WAIT status). > This box is pushing ~90 megabit out of a gig-e card and is only using about > 50% cpu, but unfortunately it cant answer any more connections because there > are no more sockets available. i tried lowering msl, but that seems to make > the system act "wierd" (all the webserver processes seem to block at the > same status) -- and i tried upping the sockets to 131072, but that seems to > cause the system to panic. > any ideas? > --Phil > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message